Kundasang Valley ( ms, Lembah Kundasang) is a

valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between Hill, hills or Mountain, mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers ...

where the

Kundasang Kundasang is a hill station in the district of Ranau in Sabah, Malaysia that lies along the bank of Kundasang Valley within the Crocker Range, and also neighboring the town of Pekan Nabalu. It is located about 6 kilometres away from Kinabalu Na ...

town is located in

Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indone ...

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

, primarily in the highlands of Sabah southeast side of

Mount Kinabalu Mount Kinabalu ( ms, Gunung Kinabalu, Dusun language, Dusun: ''Gayo Ngaran or Nulu Nabalu'') is the highest mountain in Borneo and Malaysia. With an elevation of , it is List of islands by highest point, third-highest peak of an island on Eart ...

Environment

The valley were known to be located at the intersection of regional fault zones of

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age, where widespread ground movements pose the main hazard based on a mapped geology since 1958. As a result of extensive exploration of land for

agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...

purposes, the rapid opening of new agriculture land in the valley also has caused the temperature in the area to increase significantly.

Features

The valley is featured with terraced hill slopes planted with highlands

vegetable Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, ...

s as well a cattle dairy farm dubbed as Sabah's "Little

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" where the cow breed of

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milk and

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were produced. File:Desa Cattle Farm in Panoramic view - panoramio.jpg, Desa Cattle Dairy Farm in the valley. File:Kundasang Sabah GeneralView-01.jpg, Panoramic view of Kundasang Valley. File:Kundasang Sabah Panoramic-view-01.jpg, Panoramic view from Dream World Resort on

town inside the valley. File:Kundasang Sabah VegetableMarket-02.jpg, Vegetable market in the valley.

References

Landforms of Sabah Tourist attractions in Sabah Valleys of Malaysia {{Sabah-geo-stub